Olivia Wilde has had some major realizations in just her first few days of being a mom. The actress, who gave birth to her and fiancé Jason Sudeikis’ baby boy Otis on April 20, shared this funny message with fans as her first tweet post birth announcement:

Having an infant son alerts me to the fact that every man, at one point, has peed on his own face. #awesome

Although it sounds like Olivia Wilde is taking the often abrupt transition into motherhood in good stride, she may have witnessed newborn Otis’ ‘wee’ accident all alone. Just Jared reports the first-time father was spotted on the set of Tumbledown on Thursday, April 24.

Only four days after his son’s birth he’s back at work? Sounds like just about as little time off as my own husband had.

Between being only a few months into his employment when each of our boys was born, working in production which doesn’t grind to a halt without losing a staggering amount of product, and having no paternity leave option to take, there just wasn’t much choice for my spouse but to leave home and clock in. I imagine the production aspect is similar for Jason. While the actor may have wanted to take a week or two off to spend with his family, doing so would have been at a huge cost to the cast and crew already scheduled to work.

At the end of the day it’s just money, and you can never get those first few days and hours back, but a working parent is under a lot of pressure to be in both places at once. What’s a dad to do?

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My son didn’t pee in his own face, but did pee in his sister’s! He was about 2 weeks old and she couldn’t ever get close enough to him, so she basically standing over his bassinet when I was changing his diaper. At least she thought it was funny too!

As for work, my husband left early the day I was induced with my first, and took maybe 3 days off after my second and third, including being gone the whole third week with my third. He’s a very busy man, but a lot of people rely on him. And he wouldn’t have done it if I asked him not to.

Kitty

My son peed on us, not himself.

My husband only takes a couple days off when our babies are born. He could take unpaid paternity leave but we can’t afford to. But I’m usually okay because I have family very close by to help out.

Jessica

We have been very lucky in the pee mishaps department. No one has been peed on yet, and short of knowing that he has peed in the tub, we have always managed to keep it in his diaper.

My husband has taken leave after each baby – 12 weeks after our first, nine weeks after our second, and three weeks after our third. I kind of felt bad with the time after the third baby. He was already working from home so it’s not like he wasn’t here to help if I needed something. But he had the time to take and felt like he wanted a complete break from work for a while for us to all just relax and bond. I think he is planning on taking a few weeks off again after our fourth this summer. I know we have been very fortunate that he had the ability to take the time off – so many parents don’t.

Jlynn

My daughter used to pee every time we took the diaper off. Sometimes if her feet were up it would go over her belly and soak everything. Now my son he never once peed with his diaper off as an infant, a couple naked toddler moments after a bath but nothing as a small baby.

My husband runs a dairy farm with his brothers. It is not easy getting time off and getting people to cover for you. He was able to finish milking for our daughter who was born in the middle of the night and not have to milk the following day. He did however have to leave me and her to go home and milk the second morning.

With our son he had to leave a morning milking early and did not need to milk the following night or morning. We came home and he had to go to the barn to milk the cows. We were also at the end of a major construction project that required a big change with the cows and the way they were milked. It was supposed to be done 2 months before my due date but due to lots of issues it got held up. The big change over was happening a week after my due date and required my husband to be in the barn for 16+ hours to get everything adjusted and running. I had my son 3 days early so a week after he was born my husband was only in the house to eat and sleep and barely even that.

I think that while those first moments are special I do not think dad is really missed. Nothing major is happening and the baby will not really notice. It may be tough on mom being alone but really the baby does not do too much the first month.

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I have gotten peed on by 2 or our 3 boys. They haven’t peed on their own faces though!

Our first my husband was finishing up his degree so he was home a lot, but went back to classes just 2 days after.

Our 2nd, because of the way hubbys job is he was able to take a whole month off. It didn’t hurt that we had him right around Christmas which that time of year is super slow.

Baby boy number 3 he had 3 weeks off, but a large part of that was contained in a cross country move because he was starting a new project. I drove cross country with baby boy when he was only 2 weeks old!

LACE

My son has never peed on his own face. He’s never peed on anyone else either.

My husband took a month off after each baby.

Kristin

My son has, twice. Both times I was lifting his bottom to position diaper as he’s a wiggler.

He laughed.

Hubby couldn’t take any time off

Ashley

My oldest son never actually got to pee on me, once it kind of started I had the diaper up before he could finish.

As for leave. With my first son I went into labor on Wednesday and didn’t have him until Friday evening by c-section. My Hub always has Thus, and Fri off but he had to go back to work just a few hours agreed our son was born. This time I had my section scheduled for Wed. He had Thursday and Friday off and spent them with our oldest and bringing him to the hospital. He went back to work Saturday and my mom, who lives next door, stayed with our oldest until Hub got home from work even though I was home from the hospital by then. His parents live on the other side of us so we have a strong support system. Unfortunately he just can’t take the time off.

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